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War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference (April 26 – July 20, 1954) was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, involved what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ("Blank Check")
In August 1964 , Congress passed the Tonkin∇ Gulf Resolution—or Southeast Asia Resolution, as it is officially known—the congressional decree that gave Johnson a broad mandate to wage war in Vietnam -
Operation Rolling Thunder (Remember the range of years used in your notes)
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER, AND THE CORRESPONDING HISTORY AND EVENTS IN OUR HOMELAND. MY “BACK TO THE FUTURE” REFLECTIONS AND 1000-DAY PROJECT EVERY DAY FROM NOW TO LATE MARCH 2018. MY REVIEW OF THREE YEARS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER IS MY WAY OF HONORING THE SACRIFICES AND SERVICE OF THE BRAVE WARRIORS WHO WENT IN HARM’S WAY TO FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN ME IN REMEMBERING. THIS YEAR MARKS THE 43RD ANNIVERSARY OF OUR WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM…. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, -
My Lai Massacare
March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie Company, a unit of the Americal Division's 11th Infantry Brigade arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam. They were on a “search and destroy” mission to root out 48th Viet Cong Battalion thought to be in the area. -
Kent State University Massacre
President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. -
Last US troops withdrew from South Vietnam
Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. -
"The Secret War"
